I posted this in my sidebar last night, but for those of you reading in a reader, I figured I'd have to get your attention another way!

Mamma needs some new sets of stamps and Mamma has too many OLD sets of stamps and wheels cloggin' up her basement, making her husband suspicious of just what she is running on her side...is it a business or a charity home for aged and retired stamps? Time to have A SALE:

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I mark my sets based on original retail (unless it's a hostess or SAB set). Sets in good condition are usually around 25% off...sets that are more stained are usually more like 30% off. I round numbers down, for the most part, so sometimes it's a bit more than 25% or 30%. Keep in mind that some of these sets and wheels have been hanging
around my house for a while, so anything that I had on my list last
year that didn't sell...I marked it down 10% more (off the top of my original sale price) and I rounded those numbers down too. Where that shows most is in the wheels; some standard wheels are
$3, some are $4. Some jumbo wheels are $5 and some are $6.
You will note that I have a deal where if you buy all of one alphabet
(i.e. upper + lower + numbers OR alphabet + numbers) that I will take
$5 off the price of all of them.
I ship priority mail only. I take Paypal, personal checks (if you are willing to wait until your check clears before I ship), and money orders. And I'm sorry, but I can't ship over international borders, including Canada. If I do, they come to my house and take all the gold buttons and braid off my demo apron and punch the top of my hat in. And if I were to sell my stamps across international borders it would make Shelli (may she live forever) cry buckets. BUCKETS! And I cannot be responsible for that!
So buy some stamps today...mama needs a new set of stamps!
In other news, I had to call the doctor because I woke up with an ear ache and a head ache after tossing and turning all night, having weird dreams and throwing the covers off because I was hot...and you have to realize it's usually 60 degrees in our bedroom because the heat just does not seem to make it in there (doesn't help that we had to put a dresser in front of the register...was no other place to put it!) It's always very cold in there, so if I was too hot for covers, then I was probably running a fever.
So it's more antibiotics for me. Lovely. I may have to hedge my bets and go to the chiropractor, which I have managed to miss doing for the past two weeks because I have just been too busy! The chiropractor can make all that fluid go away in my ear, which should help get rid of the infection.
Last night was fun. After I slaved all day to prepare my list of retired stuff, I made a stir fry, which I have not done in ages! I started buying food from Angel Food Ministries last month because, while we are not desperate for food or anything, we seem to rack up a hefty food bill every month and I'm looking for ways to save money. I like that there is no income limit and the food is pretty good! I also like that saving money on food allows me to keep donating to World Vision.
However, the steaks and chops I got in the regular box last month were a bit of a thinner cut than we like, so with the pork chops I had, I decided to cut them up and stir fry them. I had a packet of Szechuan seasoning mix and went to the market to buy some veggies to put in with the pork. And it was there I found the strawberries!
This market is fairly upscale, but their prices are very good and the produce is always fantastic. But at this time of year, getting a good price on some of my favorite stir-fry ingredients is not always possible. Broccoli was cheap enough, but red peppers were way more than I like to spend.
So when I spotted packages of red peppers in their discounted rack, I stopped to take a closer look. The peppers were only slightly past their prime and when I found I could get two red and one orange pepper for 99 cents, I grabbed a pack! And then I found strawberries for 99 cents a pound! They were normally $3.99 per pound and I had spent a few minutes rapturously inhaling the scent over at the full price display on the other side of the store.
Granted, they were a little past prime, but not moldy, just a bit riper than would sell well. I bought two pounds, because I just got a new bread machine with the gift cards my mom and dad gave us for Christmas. And my bread machine makes jam!
But it only does about 1 1/2 cups of sliced strawberries at a time, so it took three batches to use up all my strawberries. Otherwise, it was fantastically easy and I wondered why the heck I didn't make jam more often. Freezer jam is stinkin' easy to do and I could easily go buy up all the 99 cents per pound strawberries and make a bunch at once. 
ANYWAY my reward was eating fresh strawberry jam on my toast this morning. YUM. And the stir fry was pretty darned good too! I had tried velveting the pork for the first time and it really makes a difference! It would have been even better if I had used my wok (too buried in the basement to make it easy to get out) and if I had had a better seasoning. Too bad only Dan and I ate it. Laurel tried it and said she didn't care for it. Oh well...can't win them all.
Well, I have to actually think about doing some stamping now. Go thou and do likewise. Ta!